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Conversations About Food Waste: Meaningful Environmental Literacy and Language Opportunities for Multilingual Learners

Conversations About Food Waste: Meaningful Environmental Literacy and Language Opportunities for Multilingual Learners

Update: 2025-03-31
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Lorena Sanchez is a teacher-librarian serving multilingual learners in grades TK-8 in Tracy Unified School District. Her deep STEM background and participation in the California Writing Project Environmental Literacy and Justice Collaborative inspired her to teach reading, writing, listening, and speaking through the lens of environmental literacy. This podcast features a lesson about a rotting pumpkin that leads students into rich ELA learning opportunities around plant life cycles, composting, and food waste mitigation.


“Allow students to be curious and then come up with solutions to environmental justice problems. Integrating environmental justice into English/language arts makes students not only feel more engaged in their reading and writing but also feel they have the power to affect the world around them.” – Lorena Sanchez


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Conversations About Food Waste: Meaningful Environmental Literacy and Language Opportunities for Multilingual Learners

Conversations About Food Waste: Meaningful Environmental Literacy and Language Opportunities for Multilingual Learners